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Author Topic: What automation are you using? Harold Hallikainen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 906 From: Denver, CO, USA Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-27-2017 12:35 PM                        What automation is being used between a digital cinema server and other auditorium equipment? I'm aware of the JNIOR and the eCNA. What else is out there? THANKS! Harold  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-27-2017 02:25 PM                     I put in 334 eCNA's, mostly the eCNA-5. Not a one of them has so much as blipped. Mark  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-27-2017 04:04 PM                        We're using American Cinema Equipment's KLA-1 manufactured by Kimber Labs. I believe that Scott Kimber (who works as a tech at American Cinema Equipment) is probably connected to the unit in some way. We are running Barco DP2K-23B's with GDC-SX2000AR servers, and the automation plugs in to our IMB via simple ethernet cables. Being a drive-in, we use it to control field lights, projector exhaust fans, concession warning chimes, etc. Very simple panel. It's always work well for us in the 4 years we've had it.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 03-27-2017 04:45 PM                     Server-side GPIOs. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Nguyen Jack Film Handler Posts: 93 From: Singapore Registered: Mar 2013 posted 03-27-2017 09:12 PM                     I used GPIO The automation included Dimmer.  |  IP: Logged Annli Com Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: ShibuPaul-India Registered: May 2014 posted 03-27-2017 11:01 PM                        We are used GPIO With PLC for full automation Light , masking and audio . Regards ShibuPaul  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-28-2017 07:51 AM                     We are an eCNA company.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 03-28-2017 08:38 AM                        We had our TA10 automations upgraded when we installed our Barcos. That eliminated any need to change how our lights and other program equipment interfaced with the projectors. Everything in front of the automations stayed as it had been when we had film. For our lights, we moved in the Kelmar dimmers we had at a former indoor quad. When we converted to LEDs, we bought dimmable ones. Previous to that, we had Eprad Co-Operators and push-on, push-off type relays to run our lights. The low voltage coil lines just ran across the foil sensors we had at the time.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-28-2017 11:23 AM                     We designed and built our own RS232 system that has the same footprint as the TA10 motherboard  |  IP: Logged Pete Naples Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1565 From: Dunfermline, Scotland Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-28-2017 03:21 PM                     Similar to Gordon, we designed and build our own interface, both RS232 and Ethernet in one. If we're not using that, it'll be a Jnior.  |  IP: Logged

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